Miseducation of Black Girls (and their peers)

Keep your dress tail down; all it takes is down

Down down baby down by the roller coaster

Sweet sweet baby I’ll never let you go

Go along to get along

Along the way, don’t make waves

Waves like a ship on the sea

Sea that Jesus rebuke

Rebuke da devil and he will flee from thee

[Thee devil done took the best]

Best to be ready

Ready to get married

Married is better

Better than single

Single most important value

Value submission to a man

Man will complete and make you happy

Happy is not an educated black woman

Black Woman educated won’t get married at all

All single women wish they had your husband to love

Love self sacrifice

Sacrifice self to love everybody

Everybody but yourself protect

Protect your virginity~that’s the best & all the morality you got

Got to maintain a full fool figure

Figure this, A dog don’t like no bone.

Bone straight those locks

Locks (au naturale) unprofessional, unkempt, pick-a-ninny look

Look like somebody

Some Body white

White is right; yellow, mellow; brown makes you frown; black get back

Back then, way back, Eve seduced Adam

Adam, not Eve, created in God’s likeness

God ain’t never called a woman to preach

Preach to the children

Children to be seen, not heard

Heard you spoke your mind

Mind is a terrible thing to waste on things that don’t concern

Concern yourself with cooking, cleaning, birthing babies, layin’ on your numb back

Back then wasn’t any separating, nor divorce

Divorce is for weak women who give up too easily; first, second, third blow too soon

Soon we will be thru wit de trouble of dis world

World ain’t my home; no need to clean up this place

Place your pain way down deep and throw away the key

Key to movin on, to survive keep quiet

Quiet bout verbal abuse, bout incest, bout how man next door, daddy, uncle, brotha, granddaddy, preacha molested, raped you, bout all those crosses

Crosses you must bear for Jesus

Jesus had his cross, but you got some too.

~womanistntprof